Daily Readings for Friday 28th February 2025

Daily Prayer - Friday
- Give thanks to God for many good things we enjoy and daily blessings.
- Pray the Lord would supply the needs of those in the congregation at Westminster and guide us as we help those destitute and suffering.                               Especially those we have met in the pandemic. (Numbers 6.24-26.)
- Pray for the ministry among the children and that they would know Christ from a young age. A rich blessing in this troubled world.
​- Pray for the evangelistic work, that people would know the greatest blessing of all salvation by the grace of God through Christ.


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Church Services
Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Doctrine Class - in church (after lunch) (and also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Bible Study and Prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Lunch Hour Service
Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Outreach/Witnessing
Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards we go back to church for prayer.  




Daily Reading Plan - First Year
11) Preface - God's message to the Israelites to borrow jewels of their neighbours. Moses threateneth Pharaoh with the death of the first born. Pharaoh is still hardened.
12) Preface - The beginning of the year is changed. The passover is instituted. The rite of the passover. The days of unleavened bread. Moses giveth directions to keep the passover. The firstborn are slain. The Israelites are driven out of the land. They come to Succoth. The time of the Israelites' sojourning in Egypt. The ordinance of the passover.
Exodus 11-12:21
Preface - Christ healeth the dropsy on the sabbath, and justifieth his doing so: he recommendeth humility; and hospitality toward the poor. The parable of the marriage supper, and of the guests, who making excuses were excluded, and their rooms filled by others: he adviseth those who are willing to be his disciples to examine beforehand their resolution in case of persecutions. The unprofitableness of salt, when it hath lost its savour.
Luke 14



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Daily Light - Morning
God so loved the world, that he gave his only
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him
should not perish, but have everlasting life.

God....hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; to wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. - God is love. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be​ the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
Jn. 3.16; 2 Co. 5.18-21; 1 Jn. 4.8-11




Daily Light - Evening
The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD.

He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.... And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last.

Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

To him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin. - If our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.

All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.... Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Pro. 20.27; Jn. 8.7,9
Ge. 3.11
Jas. 4.17; 1 Jn. 3.20-21
Ro. 14.20,22
Ps. 139.23-24

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A Puritans Catechism
Q 28 - How are we made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ?
A - We are made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ, by the effectual application of it to us by his Holy Spirit.
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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Lords Supper
Chapter 30
PARAGRAPH 8
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All ignorant and ungodly persons, as they are unfit to enjoy communion with Christ, so are they unworthy of the Lord's table, and cannot, without great sin against him, while they remain such, partake of these holy mysteries, or be admitted thereunto,  (12)  yea, whosoever shall receive unworthily, are guilty of the body and blood of the Lord, eating and drinking judgment to themselves.  (13)
(12)  2 Cor. 6.14-15  (13)  1 Cor. 11.29; Matt. 7.6



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
A silent sermon
For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.
1 Corinthians 11 v 26

Dear friends, it is this that is set before you in the broken bread and poured out wine - the whole work of Christ for the salvation of sinners. The love and grace of the Lord Jesus are all gathered into a focus there. The love of the Father, the covenant with the Son; the love of Jesus; His incarnation, obedience, death; all are set before you in that broken bread and wine. It is a sweet, silent sermon. Many a sermon contains not Christ from beginning to end. Many show Him doubtfully and imperfectly. But here is nothing else but Christ, and Him crucified. Most rich and speaking ordinance! Pray that the very sight of that broken bread may break your hearts, and make them flow to the Lamb of God. Pray for conversions from the sight of the broken bread and poured out wine. Look attentively, dear souls and little children, when the bread is broken and the wine poured out. It is a heart-affecting sight. May the Holy Spirit bless it. Dear believers, look you attentively, to get deeper, fuller views of the way of pardon and holiness. A look from the eye of Christ to Peter broke and melted his proud heart - he went out and wept bitterly. Pray that a single look of that broken bread may do the same for you. When the dying thief looked on the pale face of Immanuel, and saw the holy majesty that beamed from His dying eye, he cried, Lord remember me! This broken bread reveals the same thing. May the same grace be given you, and may you breathe the cry, Lord remember me.
O get ripening views of Christ, dear believers. The corn in harvest sometimes ripens more in one day that in weeks before. So some Christians gain more grace in one day than for months before. Pray that this may be a ripening harvest day in your souls.